Contemporary Literature Press,
under The University of Bucharest,
in conjunction with The British Council, The
Romanian Cultural Institute, and The Embassy of the Republic of Ireland,

Announces the publication of

Joyce Lexicography Volume 78. Theoretical Backup Four.

How to Read Finnegans Wake?Why to Read Finnegans Wake?What to Read in Finnegans Wake?

Texts put together by Tatsuo Hamada.

ISBN: 978-606-8592-14-5

Edited by C. George Sandulescu & Lidia Vianu

The Story in Finnegans Wake

Place of origin: Japan. Profession: retired scientist and professor. Why Finnegans Wake? This book we are publishing in our Joyce Lexicography Series will tell you the story of Tatsuo Hamada, if a story it is. Maybe you will also find out while reading it whether there is a story in Finnegans Wake too, whether Joyce's last book is or is not a novel, considering that, as Hamada quotes, "What you cannot tell the story of is not a novel." (C. George Sandulescu, The Language of the Devil).

Tatsuo Hamada's book asks three very didactic questions: How to Read Finnegans Wake?Why to Read Finnegans Wake? What to ReadinFinnegans Wake? He interviews the top Joycean scholars. Those whom he cannot interview, he quotes. Nothing written about FW seems to have escaped him: he has done his homework with Japanese precision, to the least detail. His aim is not to parade his knowledge. All he wants to do is understand and help his readers do the same.

Maybe his English betrays his unEnglishness. Joyce, however, would have welcomed this Japanese researcher, since there are Japanese words in FW which someone had to find at some point. Maybe Tatsuo Hamada is the one.

The opinions recorded in this book have a common denominator. Hamada is trying to demonstrate that the composite woman+sex is the key to FW. He starts with Joyce's daughter Lucia, and ends with ALPJoyce's wife, who, he tells us, closes the book with her monologue. In an introductory poem written by himself, he even gives an explanation in a contemporary key: Marilyn Monroe.

This Japanese synthesis of FW research to date opens a gate that most certainly leads somewhere. It is for the reader to go in and find his way now.

18 January 2014

C. George Sandulescu & Lidia Vianu

How to Read Finnegans Wake? Why to Read Finnegans Wake? What to Read in Finnegans Wake? by Tatsuo Hamada edited by C. George Sandulescu & Lidia Vianu is formally launched on Friday 24 January 2014. The volume is available for consultation and downloading on receipt of this Press Release, at the following internet address:

If you want to have all the information you need about Finnegans Wake, including the full text of Finnegans Wake, line-numbered, go to the personal site Sandulescu Online, at the following internet address:http://sandulescu.perso.monaco.mc/

If you want to have all the information you need about Finnegans Wake, including the full text of Finnegans Wake, line-numbered, go to the personal site Sandulescu Online, at the following internet address:http://sandulescu.perso.monaco.mc/

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